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The universe of vulnerabilities is huge and not all of them represent the same risk for the customers. Vulnerabilities do not all have the same level of criticality. Some may be easily exploitable by a low-level user, while others may not be exploitable at all. To increase the efficiency of the attacks and the quality of the exploits provided, the Core Impact team has developed selection criteria to prioritize its analysis and implementation. We determine which exploits warrant creation based on the following questions:
What are the most critical attacks from the attacker’s perspective?
What new vulnerabilities are more likely to be exploited in real attacks?
What exploits are the most valuable for Core Impact?
Once an exploit is approved, its priority order considers the following variables:
Vulnerability Properties: CVE, disclosure date, access mechanism and privileges needed.
Target Environment Setup: OS, application prevalence, version and special configurations needed.
Value Provided to Core Impact: Customer request, usage in multiple attacks, allows the installation of an agent, etc.
Technical Cost vs. Benefit: An analysis weighing the resources needed to build an exploit with the internal and external knowledge gained in its creation.
Each one of these variables has a different weight and provides a ranking of the potential exploits to be developed. Following those criteria, the top of the list would contain, for example, a vulnerability on Windows (most popular OS) that can be exploited remotely, without authentication and that provides super user privileges.
Correspondingly, a vulnerability on an application that is rarely installed, needs special configurations, and requires User Interaction, would be at the bottom.
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VMware vCenter Server uploadova TAR Directory Traversal Remote Code Execution Exploit
Unauthenticated file upload vulnerability via uploadova plugin in VMware vCenter Server to upload and extract a TAR file.
The TAR file contains a path traversal that allows writing files at arbitraries locations.
Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Service Arbitrary File Write Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Exploit
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Spooler service improperly allows arbitrary writing to the file system. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
Windows Win32k xxxClientAllocWindowClassExtraBytes Privilege Escalation Exploit
This vulnerability is caused by xxxClientAllocWindowClassExtraBytes callback in win32kfull!xxxCreateWindowEx. The callback causes the setting of a kernel struct member and its corresponding flag to be out of sync.
Sudo Setcmnd Heap Buffer Overflow Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
Sudo before 1.9.5p2 has a Heap-based Buffer Overflow, allowing privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.
Microsoft Windows DNS Server SIGRed Remote Code Execution Exploit
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Windows Domain Name System servers when they fail to properly handle requests. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the Local System Account. Windows servers that are configured as DNS servers are at risk from this vulnerability.
F5 BIG-IP iControl REST API Remote Code Execution Exploit
This vulnerability allows for unauthenticated attackers with network access to the iControl REST interface, through the BIG-IP management interface and self IP addresses, to execute arbitrary system commands, create or delete files, and disable services. This vulnerability can only be exploited through the control plane and cannot be exploited through the data plane. Exploitation can lead to complete system compromise. The BIG-IP system in Appliance mode is also vulnerable
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Microsoft Exchange Proxylogon Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploit
A combination of a server-side request forgery vulnerability and an arbitrary file write vulnerability, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute commands with SYSTEM privileges in Microsoft Exchange Server.
Microsoft Windows splwow64 Untrusted Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation Exploit Update
The specific flaw exists within the user-mode printer driver host process splwow64.exe. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied value prior to dereferencing it as a pointer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges from low integrity and execute code in the context of the current user at medium integrity.
This update improves the reliability and adds support for more patch levels.
Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Exploit
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Spooler service improperly allows arbitrary writing to the file system. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
FreeBSD Sendmsg Compat32 Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r363918, 12.1-RELEASE before p8, 11.4-STABLE before r363919, 11.4-RELEASE before p2, and 11.3-RELEASE before p12, the sendmsg system call in the compat32 subsystem on 64-bit platforms has a time-of-check to time-of-use vulnerability allowing a mailcious userspace program to modify control message headers after they were validation.
The Collector Service in SolarWinds Orion Platform before 2020.2.4 uses MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queue) and doesn't set permissions on its private queues. As a result, remote unauthenticated clients can send messages to TCP port 1801 that the Collector Service will process. Additionally, upon processing of such messages, the service deserializes them in insecure manner, allowing remote arbitrary code execution as LocalSystem.
This update adds "Connect to" Agent Connection and fixes some issues.
Cisco AnyConnect Posture Security Service Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
Multiple vulnerabilities in the Security Service of Cisco AnyConnect Posture for Windows could allow an authenticated local attacker, to execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM user privileges.
SolarWinds Orion Collector Service MSMQ Deserialization Remote Code Execution Exploit
The Collector Service in SolarWinds Orion Platform before 2020.2.4 uses MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queue) and doesn't set permissions on its private queues. As a result, remote unauthenticated clients can send messages to TCP port 1801 that the Collector Service will process. Additionally, upon processing of such messages, the service deserializes them in insecure manner, allowing remote arbitrary code execution as LocalSystem.
SaferVPN for Windows Ver 5.0.3.3 through 5.0.4.15 could allow local privilege escalation from low privileged users to SYSTEM via a crafted openssl configuration file.
A vulnerability in the File Manager (wp-file-manager) plugin for WordPress, version 6.0 to 6.8, allows to unauthenticated remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code because.
The root cause is an unsafe renaming of a example elFinder connector file with the php extension.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows attackers to write php files to the wp-content/plugins/wp-file-manager/lib/files/ directory of Wordpress.
An authenticated JNDI injection vulnerability in Oracle Weblogic Server allows attackers to execute a java class file to gain arbitrary code execution on the affected system.
This exploit leverages a vulnerability in Pulse Secure which allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to send a specially crafted URI to perform an arbitrary file reading vulnerability.
A path traversal vulnerability in the FortiOS SSL VPN web portal may allow an unauthenticated attacker to download FortiOS system files through specially crafted HTTP resource requests.
Microsoft Windows splwow64 Untrusted Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation Exploit
The specific flaw exists within the user-mode printer driver host process splwow64.exe. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied value prior to dereferencing it as a pointer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges from low integrity and execute code in the context of the current user at medium integrity.
When using the Apache JServ Protocol (AJP), care must be taken when trusting incoming connections to Apache Tomcat. Tomcat treats AJP connections as having higher trust than, for example, a similar HTTP connection. If such connections are available to an attacker, they can be exploited in ways that may be surprising. In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.30, 8.5.0 to 8.5.50 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.99, Tomcat shipped with an AJP Connector enabled by default that listened on all configured IP addresses.
Microsoft Windows WalletService Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Exploit
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows WalletService handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions.